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NORTH  FIELD,  MINN. 


June  27,  1871, 

By  LYMAN  WHITING,  D.D. 


[Published  by  the  Trustees.] 


BOSTON  : 

PRINTED  AT  THE  "BOSTON  DAILY  NEWS”  STEAM  JOB  PRINTING  OFFICE. 
No.  4 Province  Court. 

1871. 


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Oration. 


Eig  Jdr/vuc , — “ Away  to  Athens,  let  ns  go,”  — 
sang  the  Thracian  maidens.  The  schools  are  there, 
the  scholars,  the  histories,  orations,  and  poems  are 
there.  Thither  let  us  go  ! 

The  echo  of  that  refrain  is  on  the  lips  of  all  the 
generations  where  letters  are  known.  Young  men 
and  maidens  perpetuate  through  all  time  the  grand 
old  choral,  To  the  schools  away  ! The  seats  of 
learning,  of  art,  of  letters  and  wisdom,  win  us. 

Among  the  noblest  human  aspirations  are  these. 
Next  to  the  holy  longings  for  service  with  Christ  in 
his  redemption  work,  the  love  of  letters  and  ardor  in 
pursuit  of  them,  most  worthily  inspires  young  hearts; 
and  indeed  they  are  so  often  found  together  and 
helpful’  to  each  other,  that  a common  nature  can  be 
almost  claimed  for  them. 

Jerusalem  and  Athens  are  twinned  cities  in  the 
noblest  young  life  of  the  world.  How  soon  after 
Christianity  got  a place  in  Northern  Europe,  e.  g. 
cloisters  and  rude  seclusions  for  study  surprised 
the  barbaric  peoples  by  their  numbers  and  swarming 


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eager  scholars.  Germany,  and  what  is  now  Central 
Europe,  had  very  notable  establishments.  The  story 
of  England’s  Oxford  and  Cambridge  is  too  well 
known  to  need  re-telling  ; the  numbers  counted  by 
thousands  in  their  ancient  prime.  Many  of  the 
maedieval  schools  were  alike  populous  with  students. 

The  American  College, — let  it  be  our  theme 

for  this  hour, — -is  unique.  It  began  where  the  Old 

World  college  system  ended;  at  least  in  some  sense 

so,  for  the  pre-eminent  American  aim  has  been 

men,  i.  e.  individual  educated  personality, — a man, 

whose  distinction  was  the  actual  education  the  college 

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had  helped  him  acquire;  while  the  European  plan 
began  with  a cloister,  foundations,  colleges,  a city 
of  colleges,  — the  means  to  what  our  primary  aim 
was  a result.  Men  first  : foundations,  halls,  princely 
funds  came  after. 

This  very  naturally  came  from  the  methods  first 
put  in  use  by  our  fathers.  The  people  felt  their 
want  of  education,  and  moved  in  this  way.  The 
General  Court  of  Massachusetts  Bay,  1637,  appointed 
“ a most  respectable  committee  of  twelve  of  the  prin- 
cipal magistrates  and  ministers  of  the  colony  to  take 
order  for  a college  at  Newtown.  ” * The  assembled 
people  in  General  Court  did  it ; and  all  they  could 
have  expected,  at  first,  was  to  get  instructors  and 
gather  the  youth  of  the  colony  who  desired  educa- 
tion into  some  provided  place.  Not  to  build  a 
cloister,  get  opulent  foundations  was  the  task 


*“A  place  very  pleasant  and  accomodate.” — Ancient  Record. 


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assigned;  but  get  together  men  to  teach,  and  youth 
to  be  taught,  was  the  initial  New  World  proceedure 
for  a college.  Almost  the  earliest  notice  of  any 
building,  of  the  first  American  college,  is  of  one 
scanty  and  poor,  and  soon  after  described  as  “ ruin- 
ous, and  almost  irreparable.” 

In  the  same  line  of  experience  the  “ Log  College,” 
of  New  Jersey,  now  Princeton  College,  is  thus  told 
of  in  1739  : “ The  place  we  study  in  is  a log  hut 
or  house  about  twenty  feet  long  and  as  wide. 
Six  or  seven  have  already  gone  out.”  So  late  as 
1774  all  Dr.  Wheelock  could  say  for  what  is  now 
Dartmouth  College  was  : “ The  pine  trees  on  a few 
acres  have  been  cut  down.  * * * * 

Without  nails  or  glass  we  built  a log  cabin  eighteen 
feet  square  ; a house  for  my  family  of  one  story, 
and  another  of  two  stories,  eighty  feet  long,  for 
the  scholars.” 

In  this  way  began  the  American  college  devel- 
opment. Men  first,  material  furnishments  after. 
The  results  of  the  work,  the  country,  all  the  world, 
can  testify. 

As  we  gather,  in  this  first  meeting,  after  an 
assured  existence  for  this  infant  college,  just  from 
the  christening,  — scarcely  knowing  its  new  name, 
far  less  its  destiny,  — what  better  can  we  choose  for 
our  theme  than  as  above  indicated, — The  American 
College  ? And  for  the  hour  let  us  set  in  order 
some  of  the  uses , the  benefits , and  conditions  of  this 
college  system. 


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You,  the  guardians  and  protectors  of  this  parvus 
lulus , this  last  born  into  the  great  household,  and 
a very  lineal  descendant,  as  may  be  shown,  of  the 
first  seminaries  planted  in  the  New  World, — need 
diligently  to  enquire  how  to  nurse  and  bring  up 
this  one  in  the  nurture  and  admonition  of  the  essen- 
tial uses,  purposes,  and  conditions  to  which  it  has 
been  born.  We  name 

I.  The  Choice  Apprenticeship)  of  Boyhood  to  a 
Worthy  Manhood . 

The  American  College,  well  ordered,  is  unmatched 
for  this  service  to  young  life.  The  indentures  ex- 
change jDlaces  with  the  mother’s  apron  string,  and 
with  gentle  skill  guide  him  along  the  part  of  life 
the  ancients  noted,  by  u unequal  steps,”  and  they 
might  have  added  uncertain,  because  untried  steps. 
All  the  being  is  put  to  a quite  equable  training  in 
a college.  The  boy-palm  finds  itself  fashioning  to 
the  hilt  of  life’s  great  weapons  offered  to  him  there; 
the  play-forces  pass  by  degrees  into  offices  of  work, 
and  the  latent  aspirations  body  themselves  into  domi- 
nant purposes  and  manly  forms  of  life-long  character. 

Away  from  the  care  and  dependence  of  the  child- 
home,  he  begins  to  fashion  a sort  of  home  for  himself. 
He  cuts  his  own  wood,  brings  water,  cares  for  his 
room,  and  so  begins  a miniature  householding,  — 
the  grand  prime  function  of  the  domestic  and  the 
civil  state.  He  is  an  independent  householder,  in  the 


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mimic  city,  a college  hall.  If  he  learns  how  to 
behave  himself  there,  while  an  apprentice,  we  may 
hope  he  will  be  good  for  something  when  manhood’s 
conditions  arrive. 

Here,  too,  is  schooling  in  the  fundamental  rights 
of  society:  how  much  to  take,  how  much  to  yield, — 
the  reciprocal  rights  and  duties  of  a common  occu- 
pancy and  common  pursuits  ; and  so  the  growing 
manhood  is  schooled  in  the  primary  elements  of  civil, 
republican  government,  laws,  and  estate. 

There  is  social  culture , also,  coming  from  stated 
returns  to  the  child-home,  so  often  as  to  preserve  true 
the  affections  a noble  nature  always  carries  in  itself 
for  parentage  and  home,  and  not  so  often  as  to  prevent 
the  building  up  of  a personal  manhood,  tit  in  its  time 
to  begin  and  maintain  for  itself  a home.  The  soli- 
tude of  the  dormitory  and  the  society  of  the  home- 
family  blend  in  such  proportions  as  to  educate  to 
a true  manhood.  The  culture  of  truth  in  character , 
also,  which  comes  from  co-work  with  equals,  puts  an 
essential  quality  into  young  manhood.  Among  the 
leniences  and  commiserations  of  home,  ceaseless  temp- 
tation in  opportunity  for  minor,  if  not  major,  non- 
trutliful  acts  and  shapings  of  character  will  occur. 
The  college  methods  displace  this  leasing  under  home 
indulgence  by  a gentle  judiciary,  which  no  manly 
student  will  disown.  Each  recitation  is  a species 
of  testimony  on  a common  witness  stand,  as  to  how 
the  preceding  hours  have  been  spent,  as  to  the  real 
fidelity  and  honest  use  of  the  time  for  study.  No 


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whining  or  wheedling  prospers  there.  Pretences  and 
shams  are  tossed  into  the  pile  where  they  belong,  as 
positive  personal  faults  ; and  if  he  produces  enough 
of  them  to  sink  him,  down  he  goes, — as  he  ought  to. 
Where  else  is  found  such  a schooling  for  a true, 
genuine  manhood,  having  the  needful  self-reliance  and 
the  jnst  deference  to  and  confidence  in  others  ; the 
character,  free  from  hair-brained  obstinancy  on  the 
one  hand,  and  from  imbecile  credulity,  yielding  a 
besotten  party  servility  and  befooled  lackeyism,  on 
the  other  ? 

Ancient  Greece,  the  world  allows,  produced  the 
noblest  manhood,  or  man-completeness,  yet  known. 
In  muscle,  brain,  and  taste,  their  models  are  conceded 
standards.  But  a college  recitation-room  shows  in 
miniature  the  grand  contest-games  of  the  Greeks  by 
which,  so  largely,  they  built  up  such  manhood.  The 
modern  gymnasium  does  better  for  bone,  muscle,  and 
blood,  than  the  ancient  discus  and  cestus ; and  in 
the  higher  cultures  of  mind  and  skill  in  thought 
how  the  old  ayCopegifQoi  are  restored  in  the  daily  racings 
through  classic  etymologies  and  syntaxes,  and  by 
wrestlings  with  the  sturdy,  subtle,  and  towering  pro- 
blems of  mathematics,  of  geometry,  calculations,  and 
applications.  What  wrestlings  upon  many  a college 
black-board,  and,  alas,  what  floorings,  too  ! What 
strokes  of  the  cestus  over  Reid,  Hamilton,  and  the 
masters  of  intellectual  philosophy  ! And  if  fractures 
of  the  os  frontis  are  rare,  it  may  be  owing  more  to 


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the  softness  of  the  substance  than  to  the  gentleness 
of  the  combats. 

So  through  all  the  young  manly  ardors  and  striv- 
ings of  the  college  career  a high  style  of  manhood 
is  cultured.  He  goes  through  a choice  apprentice- 
ship to  it,  in  the  physical,  mental,  social,  and  religious 
condition  and  tutelage  the  system  provides. 

II.  A Symmetrical  and  Progressive  Character  is 

Shaped  by  the  Established,  and  Wisely -Adjusted 

Order  of  Studies . 

A perfect  scheme  of  studies,  each  one  in  its 
natural  order  and  faultless  adjustment,  would  be 
simply  a counterpart  of  the  Divine  method  in  the 
creation  of  all  knowledge,  or  of  those  things  from 
whence  all  knowledge  is  derived  ; and  of  the  mind 
of  man  in  its  adaptation  to  comprehend  and  acquire 
that  knowledge.  We  make  no  claim  that  such  a 
scheme  has  been  actually  drawn,  or  that  it  will  ever 
be;  but  we  may  safely  claim  that  some  approxima- 
tion has  been  made  to  it, — that  the  wisdom  and 
experience  of  the  wisest  and  most  educated  of  all 
the  ages  have  not  been  without  great  success  in 
this  work.  The  average  college  curriculum  is  not 
drawn  for  popular  favor,  or  by  any  mere  conven- 
tionalism or  arbitrary  choice.  It  is  rather  pro- 
foundly philosophical,  mating  with  the  growth  and 
unfolding  of  young  mind, — passing  from  step  to 
step  in  the  walks  of  learning  in  much  the  order, 


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as  to  matter  of  knowledge  and  use  of  the  powers, 
that  the  Creator’s  scheme  of  “ man  and  the  universe  ” 
indicates.  The  effect  upon  the  character,  of  a 
symmetrical  and  adjusted  course  of  study,  is  naturally 
to  produce  a corresponding  formation,  and  so  on 
educates  man  in  harmony  with  the  world  he  inhabits 
and  with  the  Creator  who  made  it.  The  college 
has  no  compeer  in  this  wisdom  of  plan.  Intellec- 
tual philosophy,  e.  g.  would  meet  neither  the  taste 
nor  the  best  capacity  of  a Freshmen  class,  but  the 
average  Senior  class  come  to  it  like  trained  athletes. 
Their  prior  study  has  made  them  men  enough  to 
know  the  worth  of  the  study,  and  to  understand  the 
doctrines  composing  it.  So  with  the  higher  belles- 
letters  and  sciences,  which  wisely  are  retained,  as 
much  for  the  ripened  taste  as  for  the  maturer  ability 
of  the  later  periods  of  the  course.  This  well-devised, 
just  order  of  study, — admitting  of  great  variation 
from  conditions  of  society  and  the  means  possessed, 
to  fill  up  the  order  with  ample  instruction,  and  with 
the  material  helps  requisite, — forms  character  in  more 
or  less  correspondence  with  itself.  In  contrast  to 
the  free  university,  in  which  unschooled,  versatile 
novices  make  choices  which  the  wisest  and  best 
educated  find  it  a match  to  settle,  what  thoughtful 
mind  will  not  decide  for  the  college  mode  ? The 
public  education  of  the  North-West  will  surely  be 
depreciated  in  both  amount  and  character,  when 
fragmentary  selections  and  desultory  attendance  take 
the  place  of  adjusted  system  and  periodic  coursesi 


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The  whole  educated  character  will  run  down  under 
such  a mode. 

The  popular  substitute  seems  to  me  to  be  radically 
fault}r.  It  must  impair  the  whole  structure  of 
educated  manhood.  To  join  the  well-ordered  college 
is  to  invest  submissions  of  personal  choice  in  its 
methods  and  purposes,  and  to  follow  its  plans  in*  the 
general  line  of  study  there  fixed.  There  is  a sacri- 
fice in  -it  of  purpose,  of  time,  of  will,  and  of  working- 
power  upon  the  altar  of  learning,  at  the  outset. 
And  who  does  not  know  how  sacrifice  ennobles, 
purifies,  and  vitalizes  ? Institutions  which  submit 
themselves  to  their  pupils,  whose  terms  practically 
are,  we  are  mere  bundles  of  miscellaneous  pam- 
phlets upon  the  languages,  sciences,  and  literature, 
set  up  in  quite  stately  cases,  which  our  students  can 
pull  out  and  read,  for  a degree  ! are  not  after  the 
pattern  showed  to  our  fathers.  In  our  scantily- 
stocked  colleges,  strong,  graceful,  finished  educated 
character  cannot  be  thus  produced.  A system,  not 
of  imperious  rigidity,  but  flexile  enough  to  meet  the 
few  actual  diversities  of  talent  and  taste,  and  fitly 
framed  together,  with  time  for  work,  having  begin- 
ning, stages,  and  an  end,  — is  indispensable.  The 
Scriptures  admirably  set  forth  the  idea  thus,  “ The 
whole  body  fitly  joined  together  and  compacted 
by  that  which  every  joint  supplieth  according  to 
the  effectual  working  in  the  measure  of  every  part, 
making  increase  of  the  body  unto  the  edifying  of 
itself.”  So  let  us  fashion  our  college  frame-work. 


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III.  The  Molding  Influences  of  the  College  Period 
upon  the  Growth  then  going  on  — is  another  Valua- 
ble Benefit. 

The  most  growing  period  of  a man’s  life-time,  as 
a rule,  is  the  college-life  period.  In  college  or  in 
any  condition,  this  peculiarity  appertains  to  it,  — rapid 
growth.  The  body  and  mind  alike  are  at  the  stage 
of  fullest  growth-power  ; but  when  are  superadded 
the  tropical  fervors  of  congregated  youth,  moving 
in  common  impulse  to  the  same  tasks,  seclusion 
from  all  diverting  interests,  the  stimuli  of  duty,  of 
hope,  of  love  to  study,  and  of  wholesome  rivalries, 
all  pressing  with  unhindered  current  upon  the  entire 
society  of  students,  very  rapid  must  be  the  growth. 
Helped  on  likewise,  as  it  is,  by  the  assiduous  culture 
and  training  by  skilled  instructors,  who  quicken 
the  slow,  help  the  halting,  keep  the  laborious 
ones  upon  the  line  of  success,  and  so  infuse  the 
entire  company  with  the  double  incitements  of  real 
progress  and  of  the  motives  for  study  at  all.  Rapid 
growth  is  certain  under  these  conditions.  What 
shaping  shall  that  growth  have,  is  a grave  ques- 
tion. Is  the  strong  impulse  of  college-life  likely  to 
find,  in  connection  with  its  producing  causes,  a right 
molding  ? How  else  under  the  American  system 
can  it  be  ? The  choicest  men  selected  to  gather, 
inspire,  and  mold  the  pupils,  — Christian  men  quite 
generally,  — men  whose  personal  experience  has  been 
along  the  same  courses  of  life,  their  own  children 


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often  among  the  classes,  so  that  every  motive  com- 
bines in  the  assurance  of  utmost  endeavor  and  fidelity 
to  give  care  to  fashion  aright  the  character  so 
rapidly  enlarging  under  their  hands.  This  part  of 
the  work  is  less  the  filling  of  a cabinet, — splitting 
geodes,  chipping  quartz,  limestone,  and  granite, 
sorting  specimens,  and  on  sizeable  forms  pasting 
Latin  labels  ; than  it  is  compounding  solutions  of 
salts,  alkalies,  and  acids  according  to  subtile  laws 
under  which  they  will  crystalize  into  marvellous 
cubes  and  polyhedrons,  with  wondrous  tints  and 
delicacy  of  angle  and  joinings. 

Or,  this  co-working  can  be  likened  to  the  match- 
less colorings  and  exquisite  enchantments  of  tint 
which  Titian’s  pencil  wrought,  — did  it  by  touches 
of  the  pigment  fed , so  to  say,  to  the  canvas,  through 
patient  months  of  toil.  It  w^as  a co-working  with 
the  sunbeam  and  the  shadows  of  night,  — they  im- 
perceptibly depositing  in  the  picture  hues  blending 
with  those  the  pencil  gave.  The  pictures  in  part 
were  painted , in  part  they  grew . The  kisses  of  sun- 
beam and  of  darkness  wrought  with  the  tireless 
pencil.  The  glorious  growth  was  of  both  together. 

So  between  the  beginning  and  the  ending  of  his 
course  the  college  student  is  canvas  on  the  easel 
upon  which  the  colors,  one  by  one,  are  laid  and 
blended,  and  taught  by  the  master’s  skill  to  ripen 
into  one  another  and  wed  their  hues  with  the  sun- 
beam and  the  shade  as  they  visit  it,  until  a picture 
is  formed  which  instructs  and  enriches  the  world. 


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Or,  by  the  other  illustration,  he  is  a species  of 
chemical  solution  of  salts,  alkalies,  and  acids,  — on 
which  account,  it  may  be,  we  sometimes  observe  a 
great  fuming,  sputtering,  and  racing  up  and  down 
in  the  retort,  — but  if  genuine  substances  are  there, 
and  they  are  well  treated,  the  subtle  affinities  will 
pick  out  the  true  crystal  stock  and  frame  the  par- 
ticles into  talents  for  taste  in  letters,  for  fine 
linguistic  art,  for  robust  logic,  or  grand  scientific 
power;  and  at  intervals  look  for  a “ son  of  Hermes” 
with  an  eloquence  which  can  fulmine  over  a conti- 
nent, or  for  a bard  whose  song  will  entrance  the 
ages.  But  the  college,  in  its  steady,  skillful  molding, 
is  the  laboratory,  the  studio,  in  which  the  grand 
organic  processes  attain  their  best  and  most  lasting 
shapings. 

The  intimacies  of  college-life,  the  contact  with 
superior  endowments  and  scholarship,  the  examples 
of  matured  and  ripened  excellence  * found  in  eminent 
professors  and  presidents,  — what  ennobling,  upbuild- 
ing, and  inspiring  influences  American  young  men 
have  found  in  these!  Recall  such  names  as  Dunster, 
Wadsworth,  Quincy,  and  Everett,  of  Harvard  ; Stiles, 
Dwight,  and  Woolsey,  of  Yale  ; Edwards,  Davies, 
and  Witherspooh,  of  Princeton  ; and  may  we  not 
hope  that  future  time  shall  find  in  like  eminence  the 
name  of  the  first  and  youthful  President  of  this 
young  college,  — the  first  of  unmixed  Congregational 
blood  in  all  the  North-West  ? 


“Parvam  Trojam,  simulataque  magnis 
Pergama,  et  arentein  Xantki  cognomine  rivum.” 


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u Parvam  Trojam  simulatuque  magnis, 

Pergama,  et  arentem  Xanthi  cognomine  rivum.” 

No  wonder  the  choral  shout  of  young  men  and 
maidens,  in  all  the  ages  since  resounding  Thrace,  has 
been, — Let  us  away  to  Athens;  to  the  place  of 
scholars  and  of  model  masters  ! 


IY.  We  reserve  until  now  the  Claim  of  the  American 

College , in  its  peculiar  adaptation  for  the  Work 

of  the  Holy  Spirit  in  the  Conversion  of  Men . 

“From  the  family  to  the  school  ; from  the  school 
to  the  church  ; from  the  church  to  Heaven,”  ran 
the  ancient  Lutheran  formula.  Between  the  family 
and  the  church,  the  school,  as  in  the  natural  order 
of  Christian  life,  was  set.  Except  in  the  family  and 
in  the  church,  nowhere  can  be  found  so  effective 
spiritual  influences  as  in  the  school  ; the  college 
uniting  in  a sense,  both  family  and  church,  and  so 
often  showing  an  intensity  of  spiritual  power  found 
in  neither  alone.  The  adaptations  of  the  college  for 
such  results  are  notable.  They  are  isolation  from 
the  world  in  part,  — the  service  of  study  precluding 
amusements,  dissipating  gaieties,  trade,  speculation, 
and  the  ordinary  diversions  of  active  life.  Entrance 
to  college  is  a species  of  sacrifice,  — a giving  up  of 
common,  natural  pursuits  and  hopes  ; the  place  is 
a species  of  temple  set  apart,  hallowed  at  least  to 
the  seclusions  of  study.  The  intimacies  of  student- 


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life,  at  table,  in  chapel,  class-room,  in  recreation,  and 
in  rest,  which  intimacy  yields  a common  sympathy 
capable  of  great  unity  and  intensity;  then  the  gentler 
affections,  sensitive  from  parting  with  home  and 
friends,  and  aglow  with  newly-formed  school-friend- 
ships ; and,  added  to  these,  the  direct  care  and 
counsels  of  devoted  teachers  ; the  pious  messages 
from  parents  and  friends,  sent  by  the  love,  quick- 
ening in  separation  to  anxiety  unfelt  in  daily 
intimacy  ; — all  these  sources  of  spiritual  impulse  in 
the  seclusion  and  protected  life  of  college,  prepare 
the  way  in  eminent  completeness  for  the  Divine 
Spirit  to  reach  the  heart. 

The  records  of  college  revivals  fill  many  pages 
of  our  choicest  Christian  literature.  Dartmouth, 
Amherst,  Yale,  Middlebury,  and  Williams,  in  Yew 
England  ; Wabash,  Beloit,  Iowa,  and  Oberlin,  in 
the  interior,  have  royal  records  of  the  Divine  Visi- 
tations, in  which  young  men  in  great  numbers 
entered  into  consecrations,  which  became  paths 
growing  brighter  and  brighter  unto  their  perfect  day. 

In  a single  class  of  ninety  members  in  Yale 
College  fifty  became  Christians  in  one  revival.  More 
than  two  hundred  converts  were  counted  in  a period 
of  a little  more  than  half  a century  in  Dartmouth 
College;  and  of  them  were  our  earliest  missionaries, 
many  eminent  ministers,  presidents,  and  professors 
in  theological  schools  and  colleges,  and  chief  men  in 
the  State.  In  the  first  thirty  years  of  Amherst 
College  nearly  three  hundred  conversions  occurred, 


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and  no  class  has  yet  left  the  college  without  passing 
through  a season  of  special  divine  influence  in  some 
one  of  its  four  years’  residence  there.  In  Iowa 
College,  for  several  successive  years,  such  seasons 
have  enriched  its  history,  — while  Oberlin  has  doubt- 
less enjoyed  more  continuously  such  experiences, 
and  seen  a larger  number  of  youth  first  confessing 
Christ  as  a Savior  than  any  equal  community  in  this 
country. 

The  schools  and  colleges  where  both  sexes  are 
received  show  still  more  fully  the  efficiency  of  the 
causes  named,  for  promoting  these  spiritual  results. 

But  the  record  need  not  here  be  extended.  It 
is  known  and  read  by  all  who  have  interest  in  the 
Christian  colleges  of  the  country.  Such  colleges  are 
a very  precious  hope  to  the  Church  of  Christ, 
because  so  frequently  and  powerfully  visited  by  the 
Holy  Ghost. 

V.  The  Local  Benefits  diffused  from  a College , — 
should  not  he  omitted  in  a Plea  for  them  before 
W astern  Society . 

The  college,  as  a feature  in  the  civil  and  social 
landscape  of  this  portion  of  the  country,  is  an 
eminent  attraction.  Few  are  the  inhabitants  of  any 
derivation  who  would  not  choose  to  live  in  a town 
that  has  got  a college,  rather  than  in  one  that  voted 
against  having  one.  Up  to  higher  levels  are  lifted 
the  conversation,  the  reading,  and  the  common  range 


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of  thought  and  character  for  a score  of  miles  around 
a college;  just  as  they  are  degraded  by  a huge 
brewery  ! The  intelligence,  the  neighborhood  influ- 
ence, the  example,  and  the  intercourse  of  professors 
and  students  are  springs  of  personal  cultivation,  of 
public  character,  and  of  material  profit.  Land  sells 
better,  wheat  and  corn  grow  better  in  fields  over 
which  a college  bell  sends  its  matin  and  its  vesper 
melodies. 

The  farmer,  the  merchant,  the  mechanic,  too,  all 
share  in  the  distribution  of  the  jingling  shillings 
students  are  sure  to  put  in  motion.  Yale  College 
makes  in  the  city  of  'New  Haven  an  annual  circula- 
tion of  $300,000  ! Plutus  therefore  must  be  a friend 
to  a college  in  our  town  ! Pardon  the  presumption 
of  naming  such  a plea  before  Christian  men. 

We  cannot  overlook  the  better  benefits  from  the 
educated  families  it  attracts;  the  orderly,  thriving, 
intelligent  population  who  will  be  guided  in  their 
choices  for  a home  by  such  an  institution,  and  so 
the  greater  security  to  property,  to  life,  and  to  all 
we  count  precious  in  life.  The  common,  and  all 
public  schools  also,  find  a resource  from  whence  to 
look  for  superior  teachers, — a standard  and  stimulus 
to  higher,  better  education  in  the  students  desiring 
to  relieve  their  scanty  purses  by  teaching  in  these 
schools  portions  of  their  time.  The  churches  and 
destitute  districts  round  about,  also  find  helpful 
voices  and  witnesses  in  generous  young  teachers 
for  Sabbath  schools,  — afar  from  churches,  — and  in 


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religious  meetings  in  the  neighborhoods  which  no 
minister  can  supply.  The  yearly  festivals,  bringing 
the  learned,  the  eloquent,  and  the  gifted,  to  your 
acquaintance  ; the  graduation-days  ; the  new  aspirants 
to  places  in  the  college,  — how  all  these  enrich  a 
municipality,  and  stir,  far  away,  the  old  refrain, — Let 
us  haste  to  Athens  ! Wisely  honor  the  possession, 
you  dwelling  here  now  so  welcome.  It  will  make 
this  city  a miniature  Athens,  toward  which  the  noblest 
youth  of  the  Commonwealth  shall  turn  their  hopeful 
aspirations,  and  lead  a train  of  benefits  along  its 
path  which  will  adorn  and  enrich  every  household 
and  individual  dwelling  here. 

We  are  assembled,  gentlemen  and  friends,  not  far 
from  the  geographical  centre  of  this  continent.  The 
schools  and  all  the  treasures  for  learning  are  upon 
one  side  of  us.  A realm  of  unmeasured  possibilities 
on  the  other.  We  come  here  to  look  into  a cradle 
in  which,  we  think,  lies  an  infant  of  priceless  promise. 
It  is  an  American  College,  just  come  to  a specific 
name  and  place  in  the  great  college  family.  We 
look  to  see  it  make  this  Minnesota  town  a Christian 
Athens,  drawing  the  young  men  and  maidens,  by  the 
inspiration  of  letters  and  science,  from  all  the  wide 
region  around  us.  How  wide  this  State  is  one  of 
your  ministers  has  told  us.  “ Her  territory  is  capa- 
ble of  division  into  as  many  as  sixty-four  several 
parts,  each  of  which  should  be  as  large  as  the  State 
of  Rhode  Island.  She  outmeasures  Massachusetts 


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eleven  times,  and  she  might  twice  absorb  Louisiana 
or  Cuba.  Her  area  exceeds  that  of  England  and 
Scotland  together  ; and  it  is  more  than  twice  that 
of  Holland,  Greece,  and  Belgium  combined.”*  From 
the  same  very  replete  discourse  we  learn  of  460,000 
inhabitants ; and  that  during  the  ten  years  of  her 
greatest  progress  Minnesota  has  grown  three-and-a- 
half  times  as  fast  as  the  most  rapidly-growing  State 
in  the  Union  in  the  ten  years  of  its  most  rapid 
growth. 

Its  natural  resources  are  beyond  estimate  ; the  cli- 
mate, beauty  of  scenery,  fertility,  forests,  quarries, 
mines,  “ water-power,  vast,  immense,  and  perhaps  un- 
paralleled in  the  universality  of  its  distribution,  unless 
by  '.New  England.”  In  the  midst  of  such  a State,  of 
such  vastness  in  all  measurements,  (except  its  means 
for  culture,)  you  plant  this  college.  It  is  almost  on 
the  border  of  a new  world  ; truly  on  the  frontier  of 
the  half  of  a continent  yet  to  be  filled  wTith  men. 
Your  story  of  experience  is  not  a common  one.  It 
had  a remarkable  prototype,  long  time  ago.  In  some 
essential  particulars  your  beginnings  are  repetitions 
of  elder  members  in  the  national  family  of  colleges. 
Let  me  relate  : 

Close  by  the  water’s  edge  on  the  slope  of  land 
from  Bunker’s  Hill,  and  on  the  western  side,  stands  a 
granite  obelisk  ; a single  shaft,  fifteen  feet  high,  four 
feet  at  the  base  and  half  as  large  at  the  summit.  It 


* A Thanksgiving  Discourse,  preached  in  Nortlifield,  Minn.,  by  Myron  A. 
Munson,  M.  A.,  November  24,  1870. 


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was  hewn  by  special  permission  from  the  quarry  of 
“ The  Bunker  Hill  Monument  Association,”  and  so  is 
kindred  stone  to  that  majestic  Word  of  Liberty  which 
rises  a few  furlongs  distant  from  the  one  we  describe. 
On  it  a name  is  carved  in  “ high  relief,”  said  to  be 
the  first  experiment  of  that  work  on  granite  in  this 
country.  It  is  upon  the  face  of  the  shaft  looking 
over  the  ocean  to  the  old  England  from  whence  lie 
came.  Harvard  is  the  name.  A marble  tablet 
below  the  name  relates  “ On  the  26th  of  September, 
A.  D.  1828,  this  stone  was  erected  by  the  Graduates 
of  the  University  of  Cambridge,  in  honor  of  its 
Founder,  who  died  in  Charlestown  on  the  twenty- 
sixth  of  September,  A.  D.  1638.”  On  the  opposite 
side,  toward  Cambridge,  and  exchanging  glimpses 
with  the  spires  of  the  University  which  his  timely 
gifts  created,  is  a Latin  inscription  : “ In  piam  et 
perpetuam  memoriam  Joliannis  Harvardii,”  etc.,  in 
touching,  grateful  remembrance  of  his  great  deed , the 
planting,  one  hundred  and  ninety  years  before,  of  the 
little  germ,  in  the  unknown  wilderness,  — the  first 
I^ew  World  college  : a Congregational  College. 

From  the  parcel  of  ground  holding  that  stone 
could  have  been  seen  when  erected,  I think,  the  roof 
of  a plain  old  mansion,  in  which  sometime  dwelt  the 
famed  orator,  proposing,  Tis  said,  this  grateful  memo- 
rial, and  whose  eloquent  tribute  to  the  revered  bene- 
factor, at  its  placing,  enshrine  it  and  its  subject  in 
American  literature,  — Edward  Everett  ; and  in  which, 
after  his  removal  to  high  civil  stations,  and  then 


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to  the  Presidency  of  the  University,  lived  for  a 
series  of  years,  a prosperous,  benevolent,  Christian 
merchant,  whose  name  most  of  you  have  learned, — 
William  Carleto^. 

“ Clarum  et  venerabile  liomen 
Gentibus ; et  multum  nostrse  quod  proderat  urbi.” 

“ Pcttri ,”  we  need  to  say,  rather,  in  applying  the 
exquisite  tribute  to  this,  our  benefactor,  for  the  entire 
North-West  is  enriched  by  his  gift. 

Rev.  Mr.  Harvard’s  bequest  was  one  half  of  his 
whole  estate  ; all  his  books,  two  hundred  and  sixty 
in  number,  — a rare  library  for  one  man  at  that  day. 
The  money,  said  to  have  been  .£729  17s-  2d  , was,  at 
present  values,  a small  sum.  Yet  it  rescued  an  almost 
dying  college,  which,  like  some  descendents  of  it,  had 
for  two  or  three  years  been  drawing  out  a dying 
life  upon  resolves,  promises,  and  pittances,  but  which, 
practically,  had  no  effective  life  at  all.  His  gift  de- 
termined existence  for  it  : gave  it  a name.  For  two 
hundred  and  thirty-five  years  it  has  lived,  and  now 
numbers  nearly  one  hundred  names  as  professors, 
instructors,  and  lecturers  ; above  five  hundred  under- 
graduates, and  nearly  eleven  thousand  graduates. 
The  two  hundred  and  three-score  books  have  multi- 
plied to  187,000  volumes ; and  massive  buildings  in 
profuse  munificence  crowd  the  spaces  which  environed 
the  primitive  two-storied  and  twelve-gabled  u Harvard 
Hall.”  So  Congregational  care  for  true  learning 
began  two  hundred  and  forty  years  ago,  “ on  the 


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wild  New  England  shore  ; ” and  so,  a few  months 
ago,  in  the  middle  of  the  vast  continent,  fifteen  hun- 
dred miles  from  John  Harvard’s  grave,  a fellow- 
townsman  of  the  founder  and  god-sire  of  the  first 
American  college  surprises  the  world  by  planting 
(and  gratitude  already  enshrines  his  name  upon  it,) 
another  sapling  of  the  grand  original  stock, — a New 
England  college. 

In  noticable  resemblance  yet  other  incidents  link 
that  ancient  mother  and  this  infant  child.  Mr.  Dun- 
ster,  first  President  at  Harvard,  caused  to  be  proposed 
to  each  colonist  to  contribute  one  shilling  each  year 
to  maintain  the  college,  and  afterwards  that  “ every 
family  throughout  the  plantations,  (which  is  able  and 
willing  to  give,)  to  contribute  a fourth  part  of  a 
bushel  of  corn,  or  something  equivalent  thereto.”  We 
also  know  that  to  nourish  the  college  one  colonist 
gave  “ sheep,”  another  “ a piece  of  cotton  cloth  worth 
9s-;”  “a  pewter  flaggon,  10s,”  “a  sugar  spoon,”  “a 
silver-tipt  jug,”  “ 1 great  salt,  and  1 small  trencher 
salt,”  came  from  others.  The  towns,  also,  statedly 
contributed.  Lynn,  e.g.  £1 ; Cambridge,  £2  15s  3d- 2fs  ; 
and  even  the  Boston  donation,  noblest  of  all,  is  set 
down  in  pounds,  shillings,  pence,  and  farthings.  The 
four  colonies, — Massachusetts  Bay,  Hartford,  New 
Haven,  and  Plymouth,  with  their  thirty-two  towns, 
lifted  at  the  burden,  and  in  eight  years  the  sum  of 
all  their  gifts  was  only  £269  18s  8cl  : less  than  one 
half  of  Mr.  Harvard’s  bequest. 

Now  may  we  not  feel  a surprise  on  learning  that 


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this  college,  to  whom  all  those  things  were  unknown, 
began  by  asking  and  actually  gathering  a donation 
from  every  Congregational  Church  in  the  State  but 
one,  and  from  that  one  just  now  comes  bundles  of 
young  trees  enough  to  embower  all  yon  campus , and 
may  be,  afford  a remembrance  of  the  prescription  for 
a “ fool’s  back,”  by  a famed  ancient  educator.  We, 
too,  have  heard  that  in  the  scanted  homes  of  the 
Christian  families  of  this  State  stands  a little  box  to 
hold  a penny-a-week  from  the  household  for  this 
college  ; and  that  some  have  given  sheep,  or  cattle, 
or  land,  a colt,  books,  timber,  quarried  stone,  labor, 
etc.,  to  nurse  this  child  of  the  wilderness  ; and  in  the 
midst  of  their  “ poverty  abounding  unto  riches  of 
liberality,’’  from  under  the  shadow  of  Harvard’s  mon- 
ument, and  from  near  the  place  where  he  preached, 
and  where  he  wrote  his  bequest,  and  died,  — a hand 
has  just  been  stretched  forth  in  pious  care  and  re- 
deeming munificence  to  rescue  your  foundations,  and 
to  begin  the  royal  erection  of  a durable  school  of 
liberal  education  and  culture  upon  them. 

Friends  and  benefactors  : looking  from  this  joyful 
day  into  the  coming  two  hundred  years,  — mating 
you  in  length  of  days  to  those  now  attained  by  your 
prototypes, — dare  you  doubt  that  these  noticable 
analogies  as  to  origin  and  infantile  struggle  shall 
perpetuate  themselves  in  better  and  higher  parallels? 
Who  can  predict  otherwise  of  what  the  coming  two- 
and-a-half  centuries  will  bring  to  pass  upon  this  spot 
where  such  beginnings  were  made,  and  upon  which 


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a second  Charlestown  benefactor,  — with  the  largeness 
of  heart  and  faith  in  the  care  of  the  Church  for  true 
learning,  so  ennobling  our  fathers,  — has  received  and 
established  a struggling  college  consecrated  “ to  Christ 
and  his  church,”  and  in  doing  it  has  endowed  one  more 
human  name  with  an  immortal  gratitude?  Shall  not 
thousands,  yea,  by  that  time,  will  not  tens  of  thousands 
of  our  children  and  children’s  children  enrich  this  fam- 
ily record  with  names  shining  among  the  consecrated 
one's  in  Christ’s  work  for  man?  And  from  the  millions 
coming  to  dwell  upon  these  fruitful  plains,  during 
those  years,  shall  not  nobler  choirs  of  young  men 
and  of  maidens,  than  made  vocal  the  classic  vales  of 
ancient  Thrace,  to  be  heard  shouting  Etg  Jdrjvag, — Let 
us  away  to  our  Athens!  — the  place  of  our  scholars, 
of  learning,,  of  culture  of  mind,  and  of  consecrated 
eloquence,  — our  Carleton  College. 


[From  the  Boston  Daily  News.] 

NORTHFIELD,  MINN.,  CARLETON  COLLEGE,  ETC. 

About  two  hundred  miles  from  the  southern  line  of  Minnesota,  and  forty  miles 
west  of  the  Mississippi,  the  north-west  corner  town  of  Rice  county  is  Nortlifield. 
It  lies  on  either  bank  of  the  Cannon  river,  a spirited  stream,  with  a channel  here 
in  pure  rock.  A sloping  bluff,  on  the  east  side,  reaches  an  expanse  of  rich  lands, 
which  looks  as  if  the  surface  was  once  fluid,  and  after  a gigantic  storm  the  grand 
cresting  and  curving  swells  had  instantly  stiffened  and  become  the  beauteous, 
boundless  emerald  ocean  before  you. 

To  this  place,  some  years  ago,  came  a devoted  man,  Mr.  Goodsell,  with  an  im- 
pulse, as  if  ’twere  a life-task,  “to  plant  a college.”  A beginning  was  made,  a 
charter  given,  an  unused  new  hotel  bought,  and  preparatory  college  work  begun. 
It  was  the  first  pure-blooded  Congregational  College  in  the  North-West.  Each 
church  in  the  State  gave  something  for  its  swaddling  clothes.  Mr.  Goodsell  died 
two  years  ago.  Some  feared  the  college  must  die,  too.  But  Puritan  planting  is 
slow  to  die.  The  churches  rallied,  gave  royally,  chose  Rev.  James  Strong,  “one 
of  the  seed  royal,”  for  president,  upon  whom  God  soon  set  a seal  of  eminent  fa- 
vor in  the  almost  miraculous  deliverance  from  death,  at  Hartford,  Ct.,  thereby 
opening  the  hearts  of  more  Christian  people  toward  the  great  task  to  which  he 
had  been  called.  A few  months  ago  a princely  gift  of  $50,000,  — with  no  depre- 
ciating conditions, — was  sent  to  the  trustees.  It  at  once  plucked  the  tender 
nursling  from  dejected  condition,  assured  its  surviving,  and  gave  it  a name  to  be 
embalmed  in  growing  gratitude  through  all  time  to  come.  The  donor, — William 
Carleton,  Esq.,  of  Charlestown,  Mass.,  a townsman  of  John  Harvard,  and  repeat- 
ing his  discernment  and  timely  generosity  in  a line  of  almost  minute  yet  unde- 
signed parallelisms, — at  once  assured  the  life  and  bestowed  a name  on  the  young 
college. 

New  professors  and  means  of  instruction  will  await  the  students  at  the  open- 
ing of  the  new  college  year,  September  7th.  A fine  stone  edifice  is  daily  grow- 
ing toward  completeness.  We  have  seen  few  equal  in  beauty  and  sensible 
fitness  among  college  buildings. 

Eastern  people  choosing  a Western  home  may  well  keep  in  mind  this  choice 
child  of  Puritanism,  — Carleton  College,  at  Nortlifield,  Minnesota. 


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NORTHFIELD,  MINN.,  CARLETON  COLLEGE,  ETC. 

About  two  hundred  miles  from  the  southern  line  of  Minnesota,  and  forty  miles 
west  of  the  Mississippi,  the  north-west  corner  town  of  Rice  county  is  Northfield. 
It  lies  on  either  bank  of  the  Cannon  river,  a spirited  stream,  with  a channel  here 
in  pure  rock.  A sloping  bluff,  on  the  east  side,  reaches  an  expanse  of  rich  lands, 
which  looks  as  if  the  surface  was  once  fluid,  and  after  a gigantic  storm  the  grand 
cresting  and  curving  swells  had  instantly  stiffened  and  become  the  beauteous, 
boundless  emerald  ocean  before  you. 

To  this  place,  some  years  ago,  came  a devoted  man,  Mr.  Goodsell,  with  an  im- 
pulse, as  if  ’twere  a life-task,  “to  plant  a college.”  A beginning  was  made,  a 
charter  given,  an  unused  new  hotel  bought,  and  preparatory  college  work  begun. 
It  was  the  first  pure-blooded  Congregational  College  in  the  North-West.  Each 
church  in  the  State  gave  something  for  its  swaddling  clothes.  Mr.  Goodsell  died 
two  years  ago.  Some  feared  the  college  must  die,  too.  But  Puritan  planting  is 
slow  to  die.  The  churches  rallied,  gave  royally,  chose  Rev.  James  Strong,  “one 
of  the  seed  royal,”  for  president,  upon  whom  God  soon  set  a seal  of  eminent  fa- 
vor in  the  almost  miraculous  deliverance  from  death,  at  Hartford,  Ct.,  thereby 
opening  the  hearts  of  more  Christian  people  toward  the  great  task  to  which  he 
had  been  called.  A few  months  ago  a princely  gift  of  $50,000,  — with  no  depre- 
ciating conditions,  — was  sent  to  the  trustees.  It  at  once  plucked  the  tender 
nursling  from  dejected  condition,  assured  its  surviving,  and  gave  it  a name  to  be 
embalmed  in  growing  gratitude  through  all  time  to  come.  The  donor, — William 
Carleton,  Esq.,  of  Charlestown,  Mass.,  a townsman  of  John  Harvard,  and  repeat- 
ing his  discernment  and  timely  generosity  in  a line  of  almost  minute  yet  unde- 
signed parallelisms, — at  once  assured  the  life  and  bestowed  a name  on  tlie  young 
college. 

New  professors  and  means  of  instruction  will  await  the  students  at  the  open- 
ing of  the  new  college  year,  September  7th.  A fine  stone  edifice  is  daily  grow- 
ing toward  completeness.  We  have  seen  few  equal  in  beauty  and  sensible 
fitness  among  college  buildings. 

Eastern  people  choosing  a Western  home  may  well  keep  in  mind  this  choice 
child  of  Puritanism,  — Carleton  College,  at  Northfield,  Minnesota. 


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